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and Meal
rn Oats Bran Hay and Cornaicat
LtEiini and Ties
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Cotton
Houston is always a first
class market but it is es
Kcially attractive at this
ime many buyers biddin
harply for what is left o
Tie crop
Turn your next lot of
Cotton to us and you will
iaveno cause to regret your
ction
Will make liberal advances
whether you wish to sell on
rrival or hold
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Your Orders
Lawn Mowers Lawn Swings
Garden Hose
The best n 1C Uly
ward F Smith
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te You a Musician
IA beautiful Mandolin given
faway with one hundred Cu
j ban Special Cigars or a
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Price 350 per hundred at
I wholesale by
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save nur time trlnjs NEW CUS
TOMERS retain oM ones and
Generally lubricitei the wheel ot
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In ten foot lengths
MADE OF GALVANIZED IRON
ALSO
Mitres Elbows Rainwater
Cutoffs Etc
Peden Co
Phone 170
lotj franklin Avenue
Foundry Work
Iron and Brass Castings
Get our prices on Fire Vrouts Grate
Bars Columns Sash Weights etc
Hartwell Iron Works
DIEHL ELECTRIC FANS
Houston Plumbing and Mfg Co
713 Main St Phone 400
Also Celebrated Sunbeam Electric Lamps Full
Stock ot Llcctrlcal Supplies Motors Bells Bur-
glar Alarms Wire etc an > thing Electrical High
Grade Sanitary Plumbing See our stock
MACATEE CO S
ICOTTON FACTORS
Arrive Si oiriorro
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And Commission Merchants
Importers ot Portland nnil UoBcdnl Cc
Jmcnt Ilmc Plaster Tiro Brick on con °
slgnmcnts o
J Drain Pipe Acute Cement Plaster AsJ
phalt Hoofing etc Literal advances I
A Big Reduction in Prices
As I am buying my goodb direct from the
mills and retain the mine skilled tailors the
year round 1 urn enabled to put Up nno Ilust
flks Suits from VM00 up Pants SUM and
WvQirtlwny Sults W t0 W ° W Have sour
clottlcs made at home Willi the privilege ot
trjltig on and u gunrnntne toit
UCi irAltlllSON Tailor
Opera House Building 300 Tannin street
ACME PRINTING
RUBBER STAMP CO
Commercial Printing
Manufacturers of Rubber Stamps Seals
and Stencils Special attention to
country orders
111 and 312 Mason Block
Etc
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Wrahlugton April 2 Special 1 In
the Jioti r < jf the Nations illro distress
when tho final crisis 1st impending and
the lfonor ot Ainorlca Is u italic the
president oC the United States tho
commander In eltlcf ot tho army and
nty hna failed his people
Mr McKInlcy swings to ami fro like
tho pendulum ot a Uock vacillating
from oho conclusion to another ftom
oni pollej to a illffcrcnl one with
oven verbal wind which nisalla tho
executive mansion IIo In a wi etched
man tonight and even his cabinet twice
called in unofliclil s > cssloi todiy are
unable lo afford him comfoit Thuy
can only look on In wrNW nud ills
trefs ut the spectacle ot a president of
tho United States who In Umo ot
war dare not Ilfiht and fears pence
Men of all sections and t > titles rep
iccti tallies ot both branches or tho
National legislature nought hint to-
day in the vain hopo of IiibUIIIur n lit-
tle stamina Into his iucvcrlclmttc con-
science It was lo no effect
With tho fact staring him in lha
face that both houbcs ot const ess Will
on Monday malto n practical declaration
of war against Spain he still hesitates
knowing that ho ir facing the inevit-
able ho still quibbles Manana pa
sadu manana Is still his pitiful pica
Tho senate foreign affairs committee
has notified tho world tbit thu prcl
koiaS cvsn n tMinu
AVIll Hi > f > Vr Trlnl Cliiiivneciiit
Miiiiii li Cencriil lllllot
Taris April i Tho court lias quashed
the sentence ot ono years Imprisonment
and 3000 francs flue imposed upon it Zcln
en February 23 a tesult of tho coll ipse ot
tho charges inado by him In the Aliroro
against the conduct of tho Eiterhnsv court
martial but the court has not onlcied a
trl1l before another assise
The decision 1 based qn Iho act that
tho pcUca martin should I11U0 lodged ljio
ccmplalnt against M Zola Instead of iLe
minister of war though It was tin court
martial that was assailed by too flmmis
author and editor The Auroro tdnr con-
tains a statement from M ClPifitecau
who acted as counsel for that pi > r In tho
Zola trial In which he accuses ths min-
ister cf war General Billot ot atimpiing
to coerce the court of appeals Inln sus
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HOUSTON TEXAS SUNDAY APH1T 3 18S
i GRIGGS IS DRAFTING T
Attorney Gcnotel Gtlggs Is now UmHiik n draft of the wtcMtRr which may o
I be sent to totwcfs by tho picrldetu on Monday ThlH wcswr will ho iurc e
I fully couihed lit le al nhriccolOKy U wll ictlti In chosen Utifitmpr tho bliory
of Sr aln It will recall in diplomatic itrms the rtltutcs which that lotten mon
nrchy lira mnle on this hemisphere mid leclte In lettfl verbiage ell thf wofa
and Ills which Sptln lm < Inflicted upon this side or the Atlantic It will utile
In tenw plain enough lo be umlcmcod by all who lead hat the patlciiie and
otbcatnnco of thtf Natbn Is nt an eld nnd lt will Icext the reat In eongreSA
o e ooc9coo oaeooeoeo9oe > eco o o0c e ecooeecic a
dent and slatt department hnxo tor bo of the coal ryitdicato and the Stttt
weeks suppressed the most damnliiK
esldenco thit tho Mnlno was absolute-
ly destroyed by n submarine mine at
official Spanish hands 1 he ovldeuco
has been plgrouholod In tho state de
pattment for fle week while thu sen-
ate demanded Information and the
whole countiy t ecthcd with ludlB a
tlonWith
With tho Sptnlsh torpedo flotlUa
and another Spanish squadron on tho
way nnd a third only availing tho
Hash ot tho cable to stntt on its de-
structive mission the lonnuunder in
chief of the artnv and navy walks tho
halls of tho White Houe wtlnglliR
his sweaty hands In Impotent misery
Today tho only men who had the pres-
idents car nnd I do not spenlt by
hearsay wete Vice President lloba tt
taining the conviction of SCole si Olemeli
cenu says
1 surprised General lllllot at the suatc
In conversation with the president of the
court When tho president potcntcd
ngnlnst the attempts of tho ninlttcr ot
war lo Intimidate him General lllllot 11
piisdj
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iThcn a1vl ieah Is that yuu pro
preparing the way for revolution of
which you will bo the first vlcm
XAVAI lltlITIA
It In to He Ctottclt lit Hfiiillnr for
Alls StHlil > H C nll
Atlanta Gi April 2 Governor Atkin-
son toaay received eiders from the naiy
department to put Hie ntal mllltla In
rendlness for Fuddcn call and oamliio all
vcE3ds In the parts of this Stale that
can be uaed lor a mcuqulto fleet
There Is Only One Shortest ROUte
And 0ny 0c
= = Fastest Train
To St Louis and the North and East = = = = = = = =
keave ttm today
daul Oil opprobrium MtttK Huiiim
Stive Ktklna and the American astmt
pt the llnthsahlUls No nlltcra need nit
l > l The nothsehlldT man told the
president that his ptlnclptls would bo
able to control thu Ihtropoan clltuttnn
and niessleuis tho vice prcaldont and
the henator ftom West Yhglnlo 113
Mircd his vNccllcncy that they believed
they could hold congress down tor a
few daya more until a solution of tho
present difficulty could be arrived nt
which would preclude the pnstlblltly
of war and plaro thn hindholdorn ouoJ
more on n sound footing and ctve tho
country n chinco to da business with
Spain on business basis comment Un-
der these circumstanced would be grat-
uitous
The Post correspondent Ictrtui
IS PREPARING TO LET CO
Spains Representatives in C11I13 An
ticipatinfl the Wiirst
NEW NATIONAL AUTONOMY SCIIKMt
ou Tnllt of Vlclilliicr Control liy
IIciiiiu < > r llllldllllll TlMI 11 In IH
Icex llrnt lti l iicl
New York April 2 Spains ofllUal rep
rescnlathcs In Oubii arc picpailug lo let
go Nothing as yet has been done to pre-
pare the public for the same thing says
the Hnvanu corifapondfitl of the Tribune
Illancn nnd his officials hope to secure the
Indorsement of ilo United States for a
echime ot nominal autonomy The Insur-
gents will not acept tbnl plan oven wilh
the Indorsement of the United Slatm With
the certain knowledge that nothing short
of Independence nlll prevail tho thief In-
terest Is In the good reasoning to that
end A mesiage can b got to Gomc and
an answer leeched In six days
The confident talk In Hpanlsh rliclrs
la now of yielding ronliol liy means of an
indemnity though flliiKo places It much
higher than will 01 rr ho paid The inert
pronnuncd eililencc Hint Spain Is jlcldlng
comer from tho fiiitononilMit Good reiuoiis
exist for the stalrmcnt that Montcro the
fecrelary of the treasury nnd Jovlii Ihc
heerciary of Justice have rcfelgned already
though their resignations may he verbal
Denials of this fnt should be taken tail
IIoufIj Montcro la a icprccentatlie his-
toric autonomist who thlukR tho oilglnil
eoiuesilen of autonomy wn enough As
head of the treasury he has been informed
that Spain wll lictcaflcr expewt tho au-
tonomist government lo provide fundic for
carrying on tho war That Is enough to
wcuro his resignation for tho task a an
lmpojslhit one Govln on hl pai rt
thief of be radical fiction undertook to
accept amplified autonomy That In a
failure nnd Goyln Is of no further uso
10 the Sngajlo ministry except ns a scape
gcat The nppcarinccil are thnt the entire
aulonomlst rnhlnet will he utcd as a scape
gcat for the Spanish public
General nlancos bando which permits
the reconcenlrndos lo go Iwdc to tho coun-
try without restraint j valueless us a prac-
tical measure It might havo done rontc
good In November Now when women and
ihlldten constitute a very great innjoiity
of the reconcentraflos It has no teal hear-
ing on conditions At flrnt tho bando
was thought to bo o diplomatic move 10
tjtckmnto President McKlnleys rollry cf
forcibly succoring the reconcentradoir If
nec snry That may hjtvo hen one fUr
pose jet the Issuance of the hando U a
confession that the Insurrection can net
be put down by Spains arms The return
0 Hto peojija n largo number to ihelr
hornm would slyc the ln ursents Incrcatied
Mrength
The papers publish attack i n American
with ho preteriee of shovvlnir tow forbid
able Is the Spanish squadron Tho matolty
of the population still thinks that war
wllb the United States is an oarl Prob-
ability Pence negotiations will have lo I
unfolded 0 them gradually These logoUa
itoni do not quench the ardor ot the Span-
ish war Parly In Cuba Ths Is p ssjhly
the least of bo embarrassment of tho homo
government In Madrid however Its rpre
stntathtB hero let the martial feeling de-
velop iteelf wlthqut check They even fti
tourago the Idea that Hpain could sifely
eDtyre on a iarnlth the United tTHtm
becaufo tbo European powers would gup
port ber
A ml element am ng
PKIUISi 5 CENTS
MKSNLEYS POLICY OF VACILLATION
He Changes From One Policy to Another Like Unto the Swinging of
a Pendulum Knowing the Crisis He Still Hesitates He
I is Almost Overcome by the Great Task Upon Him
at ft lafe I out onlqht from authorita
thd sources that the iriJhUnt Is aK
motl tieicuire with the awful ttft > ol < l
bllltlc ot lila rll hat mi
iresldeut AleKlnl v Is a hrol On uiatt
onlghl tils filftrls nrc With him
fttcKlttfi to giro hm vhtt eomioit they
inny hut he is eu in phystrhmt
my he must have test Th btmtti ot
the past week luty Iwen ovcfpowcMiig
He ilelns the hit he eth neieatttr
ncur vifHI shnpe iiiu > elvc < Tolfty
n tnpy nt n letter liV Jehu Atllhoti
1 o tel sectettry to the president witU
ten to th Uartfotd CrturAnt was made
nuldln in Wahlngtan U will doubt
le < go the round of the pleM rt the
t nunlry < U apprnls In the best hunluiM
ttileitaifl of Hartford to sunioit the
wise pollc > t ie preBldilit what-
ever that may mean without dehy
cud hopoh Hint he sttong reiresetua
the i ti of Hmttmit will innke their
lulluruec foil tomorrow or It may ho
too late Thri mrj igs ctuia Mr
Iurtcr his j b it lj u hero In Wash-
ington lalu tonight and 1 nm nutliot
l > ed to rem nt It to The 1cU that Mr
Pinter will ho tetlied either lo samu
podllon wheioOils ami for the tesi
denl will nol fiuhmll the litttti to rueh
a Btorm of eilllehm rH Poiteis Ict lel
has ntnuAodt or to something equally
ni gord wherti he can not do so iuulIi
damage
mcrrbanti and planters knows tin frlly
of this lull but this element run not < run
out nrcnly and nntagnnlea tliu war Pltty
The nlm of the 1 Inntsrn and nifrctants
who haie lost confidence In Spain ptbl Ity
to malnlalti her way In the Island Is 1 lth r-
ant Anlotiean proteetotateor Rttrlcxa lo
IrsUftd of gtowlng strobger tjjfy ji ojrig
weaker In the pfctenei of lliciloflM
twten the two eotinlrlevwhtn cery Siiaii
Inid who Is not ready lo liadartake htu
tllltlcs la Ijoked upon with dittiust TIiIj
Inlluenio fee peace can not b counted
on as either a chock or guide to the pp
Dim movement It lit loft In lbs fervor of
th61timy officers the volunteer and the I
populace Same cf tho nutcniuuht leaden
too go with thi > tide They are muio bit-
ter against the United States than the In
trnnilseiitts They hold 11 Usroriilbln for
the falluie of autonomy which by for e
of circumstances beeninrn heir own fall
uic However nutonunilBls clllior as lotd
eia or followou are not nuineintia enuugli
to make Ibla flcntlmenl a faitur cf lm
nortance They can neither cny a lolhy
which they f or lo uo i < > ro nrcro t
the successful execution ot a policy ti
which they ate opncitud Tito function of
Hie iiutonoinlst cnvcrmnisnt In thu do
meslle enncrrtu of tho hland havo hyin
weak In Intrrjintlonnt nffilin II Is a cphsi
Tlie Spanish classes do not need Inormrt
lion legimllng the louillllon of Hie ttvo
ltillon ns do Ihe people of Kpaln iiio
know thnt the iiihurgculs will tieter mo
for peace that tho only hone of the pen-
insula lien In extermination Ios lb > bj
cniifo of their superior knottledire he
Spaniards In Cuba aio tinnqtill over th
reports of itlleinpted negotiations Tl > y
beildfe all clloitu for nit nrmlstlce Wil
fall becauhc the InstttKeuU will not ar
ttit unleH it Is lijud on ludepeiidvme
That tho Sagaata cabinet 1 pupailin
through tho good ollccs of the Unit A
States for conceding the Independent ot
Cuba Is Incredible o thete loyal and pa-
triotic KiipporteiH of the niolltsr couniry
Tha course of General lllrmco and of the
authorities Una not been such as to prep J to
thorn for Hindi action if this po ci tlu
ease they will not > s cailly or readily
reconciled They would rather talk of war
with the United StntcB That is whfit tiry
art doing while Madild and Wushlngioi
arc talking peace
A HTKUVG CO IHASiT
UiirIInIi IlipiTM Urutv tin l iiiinrl
011 llftivicn Mpill 11 11 nil AinirlcM
Loudon April 2 The aftcrnupn papers
deplore war hrtween Spain und tho Ulilted
Slates but drUaro It U Inevitable unlets
a third nation nucceeda In patching ml an
eleventh hour peace Porno of thu papers
deride the Madrid demonstration Th9
ycHtiiilimter Gsetto lefera to H as n sort
of Intcrjiatlonal Nellie harrcn perform-
ance n the Hoyal theater
The Pali Mali Gaetto ays President
McKInlcy ha pa > ed a great part but ho
will lenecl when the limit baa been reached
apl If war l to be put on Jt will its ivjth
tjuiet dignity contrasting otrongly with the
excitable ctago army effects of the Madrid
opera house
THVIM TO IICV
iiiitiiliiulir Ilroivil ini VrKolliltinK
fur n Wrsiraili from lliircicco
Ilome Aprl 2 Tho r Prt that Jhe liaj
Jan aimored erMlser Cairo Ab erto has been
sold tp Spain Is Untrue no tho worship
belongs lo tho nation nnd a law must bo
enacted before uho can ho old < The t c l
situation Is that Commander Drownjon is
nesdtlatlpB lu bebalf pf thn Unlte < l8atco
for ihe purchase of the lisslor which is
being built for JlOforco At tbq oVsiitJo
yjirds but the consent or Mprocco must bo
obtained before thio sajo c 9 botconaura
mated Coiumsuder lsVtife
Ilrownso n U
Ingtroim imtwWm
I enol bottle of e Vi
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M DAVIS SUCCOR 7d WniiNDt lm
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He Slimvctl Mlflhtv Iowcrafif E iS B
Waco Tcvit Amli a There will tw
hio funeialf tomoirnw In AVaeo T i
Oaylfl died t itr > this nttcrhoon lust
twehe hotils aftct Itranu hreathed fU
laft At It oVloeh lomonow nfteinooii both
will be laid In rcst Mr Davis In the hlist
Miert eemetery and Mr nrinn In 0d
w sodo
Mr I5 svla was a man ot stiong vltslty
tmtl t wnsillttUon thit utive him migltiy
lower or emlnntnce whleh aeeotinta for-
Ma llliig no I0113 itcer being riddled w lth
rullela There iicHitr was any bona what-
ever for IiIb tectivery
Mr HrAnn was Just thp ouposlte to Ua
ln In phyfileal power lie was a wvtk man
physically unit hud very puor leiuneiitlUR
ptiwern If he hud hqtm shot like lilti nu
taponlst ho vvouldnt ha vc Ibcd an hour
All Huuin leavct a wife and two ehlbltei
William UmllKtu nnd Grtice tlsrttUdo both
nrp tinder > yeare o jrc Their cidtnt
thlld died lit Houston some vcars ago < tud
Ih bulled there but an urder ltn > beu
Itlxcn tot her elimination olid removitl 10
Vrto where her renuimt will be rclntcrrcd
beiilde her father Urmn had made dates
for n lecture tour nnd > ts to begin i l
Met mi On Monday night
0 it Waid brother W It Waitl
wiu here latt nleht buL returned to Tyler
thin morilltiR Ho IH ilr6 punllent of tho
iyler Iowidiy mid Machinery company
Ha could have made bond for hh In01 her
V ll Wtrd b it It Mes determined to
wUlt Hip leatilt nt Davis yaiinds Kiliiuii
Of Ward In thin cHyuvd irranxcd to glv
Ahnteve bond Ih rccjtitrcel when ealitt1
wh1
ititifV InsrfMoYv
sihuiIkIi ihruritliiil < tn xiiiineiju
ii rt > tv lill ilH CllllllllK
Waslilngtcn April TJie Spanish mln
Inter here RennrPOlo has > lvon ptlbllolty
10 tho fullowing
On PUdn tho 25th to Spanish court of
Inquliy inadu list repoit and the Spanish
consul geneial 111 New York filed ofllclally
Willi the United Slatta dUtiltt ailorney ot
New York tin iiildni mud by u inill
named Jean I llennett of JU7 Fottyiouriu
street New Ynil Uii
Mr iicmnclt antmiilictd himself as au
Inientnr of cxiilotltc aid lells hmV Ua
wad ealltil tipju by Oonsitlo He QueimU
Heliums antl ntlmu et the Cubtlt Junta
Jo New Y01U who wete gttatly Intuiittd
In his cxploilvn which ie oiijk emit
Hifht nnd flame und have four Union the
HtutiRth uf gunpowder
lie dues not any thnt ho sold any ci
lioflint to Ihe CtitlailK
The PpUilsh 1 oniu general In New Vvrn
leuk nici on to Investigate tho rhaincrr
cf 1 1111111 who made the arflihull end
not only filed u copy of be dcurit it in
il > o dlstilet nttorilryR ofllcc bit oeit > i
copy to the Spanish mfnlslrr ry Ti
nffldtivlt II Ih mid will be laid before the
wcrtnli lommlttoe on foreign ifftl fi wl tth
nieeiH ledny aiid Is pnifiilng a lino of Iw
vrfllgatlnu legatdliiK ho Maine n Ihu
belief Hmt Spains official icspotulblllty
enn be llxed
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tiiiiMi in cruA
MdiiMloiil lirciiiilcil iin rltirnl l nt
In Jpiiiilnril Ave Inlrliille
IlHMina April 2 Tho newopspers herp
Irmii Hewn wheh they have received from
ho eteilor and Inttfilor of the Island
rrgmd the alltinlloii ni critical Tho tone
of all the papcra is intensely patriotic
The ConstltlielonHl this morning sayti
It H time to let tho public know the real
ninte ot affair between the United Slates
and Spain Wu dnpiccate undue fanfare
or crlct of To WnshliiKlon but remember
tlioie of A Heilin of Prnnce beforo Se-
dan
In he city oidcr has bsei nrcrerrod
up to the piesetit writjng while the au
Ihorllles are taking prccautlonu to cuf
continued tranuUllllty b the city
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chaspd at Schlchuu for hi government ly 5
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